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leader for 55 eastern, we will show you his remark in scranton, pennsylvania where he is expected to be joined by vice president biden. >> when you write about, a lot can go wrong. i'm somewhat erratic and a lot can go wrong and 110,000 words. i've been pretty shocked. i guess that there has been criticism from inside, it has been mostly in the vein of how dare he. meaning how dare an insider give away the secret handshake. how dare an insider talk about other insiders in way that perhaps might not be in keeping with the codes that we have in washington. people keep asking why are people uncomfortable here. >> papeete's book club returns next month with this town. read the book and engage on twitter. get the conversation going, including discussion questions, links to interviews, reviews of the book, and interviews from our booktv archives. >> up next, eric schmidt and jerry cohen lay out their vision in the world in which everyone is digitally connected. discussing about the new digital age. this is an hour and 10 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> welcome, everybody. the book is
leader for 55 eastern, we will show you his remark in scranton, pennsylvania where he is expected to be joined by vice president biden. >> when you write about, a lot can go wrong. i'm somewhat erratic and a lot can go wrong and 110,000 words. i've been pretty shocked. i guess that there has been criticism from inside, it has been mostly in the vein of how dare he. meaning how dare an insider give away the secret handshake. how dare an insider talk about other insiders in way that perhaps...
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. >> host: jesse was in elizabeth town, pennsylvania. please go ahead with your question or comment for amy goodman. >> caller: great. very, very glad you can have me. aisle the director of the powers writers house in elizabeth town college and elizabethtown pennsylvania. democracy now, fantastic organization. i was just wondering, aimy, if perhaps you could speak a little bit about other organizations you think are doing the same kind of good work you are, and let me take this moment to personally invite you to our writer's house. we'd love to have you out there and spend time with us. >> guest: i'd thereof come -- i'd love to come and thank you very much. independent media is on the rise in the united states. all over the country you see public access tv, public television, pbs, community radio, college radio, web sites that are truly independent, and it's very important and it's so important in the community for people to know where they can make their own media. you can't just walk into nbc, cbs, and abc, and make a program. you need
. >> host: jesse was in elizabeth town, pennsylvania. please go ahead with your question or comment for amy goodman. >> caller: great. very, very glad you can have me. aisle the director of the powers writers house in elizabeth town college and elizabethtown pennsylvania. democracy now, fantastic organization. i was just wondering, aimy, if perhaps you could speak a little bit about other organizations you think are doing the same kind of good work you are, and let me take this...
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reform we have a tax reform task force that was lead by the governor of kentucky and the governor of pennsylvania. they released their guiding principle on federal tax reform. that focuses on the interest exclusion on municipal bond and the federal deductible of state and local taxes. in addition the broader principle addressed the broader issue of insuring the federal tax reform does not limit or preemplet state authority. so you can see we have been very busy. there's a lot to be done. we continue to face fiscal challenge in our state and several years of slow recovery we are all challenged with providing resource and the critical area that have to be cut during the recession. we are challenged by the federal declining funds that are suggest including medicaid and higher ed and construction. -- correction. we better address the economic challenge by create more opportunity for our people. that's going to be a theme of many of the conversations this weekend. as we discuss job creation, you know, everyone want to be the jobs governors. but we want to make sure that we're focusing on opportunity f
reform we have a tax reform task force that was lead by the governor of kentucky and the governor of pennsylvania. they released their guiding principle on federal tax reform. that focuses on the interest exclusion on municipal bond and the federal deductible of state and local taxes. in addition the broader principle addressed the broader issue of insuring the federal tax reform does not limit or preemplet state authority. so you can see we have been very busy. there's a lot to be done. we...
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texas was shaken, shockwaves have been felt across the country here in washington and even at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. a scale of death and destruction has come under focus and americans have been forced to ask themselves some very tough questions could this type of event happened here in my community? you facilities with explosives or lethal chemicals pose a risk to my family and my home or my community. the likely response is maybe. and surely the federal government does. this west facility explosion undermines that sense of conflict. the firefighters who have gone in to do what they have been trained. fight a fire. this was a chemical fire fueled by ammonium nitrate and until these explosions in the department of homeland security did not know that the west plant even existed. we administer the risk-based program that requires facilities with threshold quantities of certain chemicals to submit information through the top screening process. dhs performs a risk analysis to determine whether the plant should be regulated and facilities that dhs determines to be high-risk are required in the vu
texas was shaken, shockwaves have been felt across the country here in washington and even at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. a scale of death and destruction has come under focus and americans have been forced to ask themselves some very tough questions could this type of event happened here in my community? you facilities with explosives or lethal chemicals pose a risk to my family and my home or my community. the likely response is maybe. and surely the federal government does. this west facility...
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opponents of obamacare are trying to deny a low income people in certain states like my state, pennsylvania, the tax credits that they need and deserve under the law to make health care affordable. if they succeed in the courts kamal they will have achieved is creating a two-tier society with profound effects in my home state and throughout the nation. what matters most is that it does nothing to address the real issues. the real issue is that four out of five in the u.s. will live in poverty or long term unemployment at some point in their lives, and the majority have yet to pass a single jobs built in the 113th congress. the real issue is that in places like scranton and wilkes-barre and easton and pottsville, unemployment is over 9%. the real issue is that over 70,000 people in my district don't have health insurance. about 6500 of those people are children. in fact, just under nine and a half percent of families and one and have children in my district live below the poverty line. these are the exact people who need these tax credits. instead we are sitting here wasting time and taxpaye
opponents of obamacare are trying to deny a low income people in certain states like my state, pennsylvania, the tax credits that they need and deserve under the law to make health care affordable. if they succeed in the courts kamal they will have achieved is creating a two-tier society with profound effects in my home state and throughout the nation. what matters most is that it does nothing to address the real issues. the real issue is that four out of five in the u.s. will live in poverty...
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he stopped in pennsylvania to talk about his book about the civil war titled "getties berg." it's twenty five minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i loved it and thought it was the most effective. create. finish the book last week also. he loved history book. >> is that right? >> he left -- [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] we have plenty of -- well, we set up here about twenty five minutes ago. okay. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] thank you so much. >> these are 140 years old. [inaudible conversations] >> it's the same -- [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> he's gotten heavier or added some weight. >> he did. who is he -- [inaudible] one of the delegate of virginia when they first decided -- [inaudible conversations] he was just the -- [inaudible] while they were doing the war with robert duvall which was doing the -- somebody said they liked duvall. he was so good. he looked so good. i see turner up there. >> yeah. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] danie
he stopped in pennsylvania to talk about his book about the civil war titled "getties berg." it's twenty five minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i loved it and thought it was the most effective. create. finish the book last week also. he loved history book. >> is that right? >> he left -- [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] we have plenty of -- well, we set up here about twenty five minutes ago. okay. [inaudible conversations]...